Relational Database Management Systems
A program that lets you create, update, and administer a relational database. Most commercial RDBMS's use the Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the database.
Release Management
A process intended to control the development, testing, deployment and support of software and hardware releases, ensuring that changes to the software or hardware do not negatively impact existing programs and services.
Renewable Energy
Energy generated from natural sources that are continuously replenished, such as solar, wind, hydro, or geothermal energy.
Repository
Stores information about software versions, documentation, executable files, models, or source code. It is usually in a centralized position within the enterprise computing architecture.
Representational State Transfer
Architectural principles and guidelines for building web services that are scalable, stateless, RESTful APIs (Representational State Transfer): Architectural principles and guidelines for building scalable and stateless web services that communicate over HTTP using standard methods and data formats.
Request for Information
Used to obtain information about a vendor to determine fit for an evaluation. It is designed to collect information about the prospective vendor’s company, capabilities, skills and experience. A document that requests information about a vendor’s product and sets out requirements for a software system and usually contains functional needs, vendor information request, technical and...
Request for Proposal
A document that an organization posts to elicit bids from potential vendors for a desired systems solution. The RFP specifies what the organization is looking for and establishes evaluation criteria for assessing proposals.
Return on Investment
A capital budgeting metric in which the flow of benefits that results from an investment is compared with the cost of the investment, usually in the form of a ratio using the cost of the investment as the denominator.
Reusable Software
Software components or modules that can be used across different applications or projects, saving development time and effort.
Reuse
Refers to the inclusion of part of a pre-written piece of programming code in another application. The code may be stored in an internal library or may be obtained from external sources.